#printed yapping

[cmykitsune]

people who love ghost types are so funny to me because they're like "my favorite pokemon is ghostergeist. its dex entries mention how it consumes the souls of the innocent and kidnaps children but it's friend shaped and has a cute smile. i let my ghostergeist plushie guard me in my sleep and it's always in my party."

[cmykitsune]

i unintentionally see submas fanart sometimes (i love them but i'm usually looking for art of their ace pokemon LOL) and is ingo's chandelure being female canon or just a headcanon agreed by many?

because i kinda agree that's a woman who will fight for mr. train man

[cmykitsune]

had a dream about submas getting a new suit in pokemon masters but i only saw emmet's where his color scheme was white-brown-red and he had a gigalith. he also had a lot of stylized rocky textures

[cmykitsune]

litwick line getting into my head again after a decade is crazy since i think about them a bit differently from my child brain now. yes i still think their creepy + cute vibe is absolute peak but i've noticed something about them that makes them a very good evolution line. yes they have the candle > lamp > chandelier thing going on which doesn't seem to be impressive by a casual pokemon fan at first (i think it's creative as hell lmao, making a ghost chandelier somewhat cute is harder than people think) but evolution lines seem to have a character arc and they have one as well! or that's at least how i interpet it

warning: long. i don't wanna cover the search results of these goobers so i'm cutting it here :]

litwick is a little emo candle who does...something a bit questionable to the humans. hell it can even outright kill them but it feels like they're not doing this out of hatred, but rather survival instinct. it's a fantasy creature, let alone one that specializes in spectral abilities, it can get nutrition from souls as a treat. it has a little ghostly flame up and it needs fuel for it as fire-types go. even if it's unacceptable for living beings.

lampent is such an interesting specimen to me. designwise it foreshadows chandelure's features (glass head with a flame in it, black body with long arms and no legs) while also keeping litwick's cute and young vibes especially both having the same eyes, a bit more like a teenager than a child litwick is. it even reveals its other eye now.

but it seems to have some distinctive features no other stage has. the disc on body aside (it's giving skirt to me) it has a big ole lampshade. since pokemon tends to do clothing on their creatures sometimes i always saw that lampshade as a hat. but it is quite large for its body huh? it covers the body a lot when looked from certain angles. but there's one very important thing that it covers, the flame. the distinct blue-purple flame this line has compared to most fire types. (they added more purple-fired pokemon since but they're the first ghost-fire line so it was distinct at the time)

it can be seen as it trying to protect its fire which seems to be very important to them since there's a lot of focus on their ghostly fire. but when you read lampent's pokedex entries it...does not lure people in and steal their souls anymore like litwick does, it now takes its time to wait for people and pokemon to die first. this and the big lampshade combined gives me the vibes of lampent being embarrased of one thing that keeps them sustained. it probably thinks "maybe if i go for someone that will die soon, i won't be shunned as much right?"

but then it evolves and the fire in its head is free and out, bigger than ever. hell it even gets some in its arms now to fit the chandelier theme. chandelure is all out on its ghostly vibe, a lot of spikes and swirls (which is used in halloween motifs a lot) with a nice and spooky head who almost looks like a skull or a stitched mouth. and the way it acts is...actually way closer to litwick! it returned to its habits of luring (heh) and stealing the spirits of living things instead of searching for who will die soon. by the way it gets a lot stronger and the flames are as obvious as ever it's giving me the vibes that it's no longer embarrased about what it does now. and it can kick off a 145 special attack stab fire blast or shadow ball if anyone dares to fight for it.

the entire line has this "kid likes something a lot but people think its cringe, teen tries to cover themselves up by being acceptable by society but adult doesn't care anymore and returns to their passion" vibe to me and along with the emo/goth/alt vibe this line has, i feel like i'm not too far off it. replace the stealing souls bit with something less morbid like...art or having a different taste in fashion. it makes a lot of sense right? i might be overanalyzing some light fixture ghosts but pokemon tends to put a lot of detail in their designs where people don't notice a lot of the time

also if you see them in pokemon amie/refresh litwick and chandelure love arm pets but don't like when the player touches their base of the fire on their head. lampent is the opposite for that, it loves the pets on the top of its lampshade but pulls the arms away if you touch those. fun fact

[cmykitsune]

Yeah, Chandelure being female is a shared headcanon. In the actual canon, Chandelure is revealed to be male in Pokemon Masters EX.

I'm more attached to the headcanon instead, lol!

i think canon wants people to believe that it's a boy (anime and masters) but the mainline games randomize their genders so people sorta do whatever they want

however conductor father and ghost chandelier daughter is cute and i will stand by it

[cmykitsune]

Chandelure being female is headcanon lol. In BW/B2W2 none of Ingo or Emmet's pokemon have set genders (they can be different each time you fight them). In the anime they're male, but I'm not sure if they're mentioned to be one or the other in MastersEX

yeah i remember the games being randomized and the anime one sounding particularly masculine, especially when the pokken one is high pitched in comparision (i'm also a pokken chandelure is female believer) so i got curious! cute headcanon

[cmykitsune]

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[cmykitsune]

what are some prominent characters in deltarune ribbit aside from the....whatever you call fan gang in that mod + lancer? asking for a friend